What Creativity Means in Media: Cannes Video With OMD CEO Mainardo de Nardis

Exec Hopes Festival Can Return to Its Roots

Published on June 20, 2013.

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Media agencies around the world use creativity in finding new ways to reach consumers, in technology, even in data, OMD Worldwide CEO Mainardo de Nardis says in this interview at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

But it's particularly fun when creativity emerges from smaller, faster-developing markets, he said, because great ideas sometimes emerge when flexibility and spontaneity is elevated above packaging and polishing.

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